§ MR. CLOUGH (Yorkshire, W.R., Skipton)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset, as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether the Board has the power to substitute two fishery boards for one with regard to the River Ribble, one to have the jurisdiction over the portion of the Ribble and its tributaries which flow in Yorkshire, and the other to have jurisdiction over the portion of the Ribble that flows through Lancashire; and whether, if the Board of Fisheries has this power of administration, the President will in the interests of efficiency, act upon this suggestion.
(Answered by Sir Edward Strachey.) The Board could only take action in the direction suggested by my hon. friend on an application by a board of conservators. If any such application is made it will receive careful consideration.